UU114 Week 3 Pacific Health & Well-being by Dr Debi Futter-Puati

my name is dr debbie futapuati and i'm the campus director in the cook islands at usp here in beautiful rarotonga i'm going to chat with you today about health and well-being as part of your uu 114 course so today we're going to chat about pacific health and well-being and have a look at what some of the

countries around the world consider being healthy and what well-being is and compare that to pacific understandings of health and well-being today this little conversation will explore the concept that health and well-being or healthy lifestyles are states that are greatly impacted by the environment that you're in the individuals and communities that you are part of

your country's policies and the cultural economic environmental political and social environments that you live within we're going to be considering today the concepts of health and well-being discussing three pacific health and wellbeing frameworks and promoting some reflection around your personal health and wellbeing as a student at the university of the south pacific the first thing

we're going to look at is a statement around health from the united nations the article 25 of the un declaration of human rights discuss health this definition talks about the fact that everybody has the right to a standard of living that is adequate for the health and well-being of themselves and their family see how language has

changed over the years including food clothing housing and medical care necessary social services and the right to security in the event of being made unemployed sickness disability widow being widowed old age or a lack of livelihood and circumstances that'll be on their control and if you look at the date that the un adopted this uh